Tagged: Jason Kenney

Stephen Harper has had a fine old week. Which is curious, considering he's newly short one experienced and skilled foreign minister, one Toronto suburban MP and one formerly devoted retainer, with rumours of further departures swirling.

Jason Kenney is vowing that by this summer, he'll eliminate the massive caseload backlog that's left thousands of ailing or injured Canadians waiting years for appeals after being denied Canada Pension Plan disability benefits.

Here is the irony, and perhaps the risk, in the Conservative party’s placing so much emphasis on attacking Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau: if the emerging Liberal strategy succeeds, the leadership horse race may not be the driving issue of the 2015 campaign at all.

No one knows what Stephen J. Harper will do. Nobody knows whether the prime minister will call an election early in 2015, for example, to slip a campaign through before Mike Duffy’s trial begins in April.

A memorial to German Jews who perished in the Holocaust after being turned away by Canada has been in storage for months rather than on display at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax.

Employment Minister Jason Kenney disagrees with Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz who said earlier this week that out-of-work young people should consider unpaid work to pad their resumes in a tough job market.